On 2011-02-10 20:42, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote about
the Danish summer time law:
Yes, one interesting detail here is the use of the word "klokketiden"
which literally means "(Church-)Bell-Time", but which most people
would understand as "clock-time"
This word first appears in 1946 in the first law to introduce
DST in Denmark, and _presumably_, but we cannot know for sure,
this was meant to distinguish "clock time" from "solar time":
http://ordnet.dk/ods/ordbog?query=klokketid
Very interesting indeed! "klokketiden" also shows up in
web sites of Greenland and Norway (bokmål). I do not know
enough Danish -- could it have a function similar to the
(US) English wall clock time?
He continued about the use of suffixes 'A' and 'B'
to distinguish between the "repeated" datetimes that
occur when a civil time scale is set back from summer
time to winter time:
I have only ever seen it once, and that was my own doing:
When we ran into this, We tried to see if we could fit
the 'A/B' designator on the receipt printed by the automatic
gas-pumps without using another line of text.
We couldn't and since we could not have a special print format
during that one hour a day, compliance would have used 138km more
paper per year.
Which evidently wasn't worth it. I've heard objections against
the notation on the grounds that letter suffixes like A and B
are used in the military, where they denote fixed time zones
(Alpha for UTC + 1 h, Bravo for UTC + 2 h, ...).
Thanks.
Michael Deckers.
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